The next good mafia movie

Any thoughts on who (or what) would be the next best person, family, heist etc to base a good mafia movie on?

I'm thinking the Gemini Twins would be good..think a deMeo movie was discussed but doesn't seem to have come to anything... there would be a fair amount to keep the movie going as well..GTA, middle eastern contacts, double crossing cubans, forced to whack close friends, the westies (also would be a good movie)..

I'd love to see a movie based on Carlo Gambino.

That would be amazing i'd also like to see one based on Vito Genovese .

Has to be Scarfo for me

A DeMeo crew movie would be good but theres so much to that story that the movie would be "watered down" quite a bit. Theres so many characters and events, etc.
I think this movie about the Iceman coming out next year actually looks pretty good. Ray Liotta is playing Roy DeMeo - that should be a hell of a performance.
Michael Shannon as the Iceman should be good too.

Yep, looking forward to it

For me it would have to be one on the recent Colombo Family War (Scarpa, Orena, Persico, etc) or one on Anthony Casso or Chin Gigante.

Lucania...not a fictional story like "Mobsters",but the real story,should be at least 3 and a half hours movie,the castelammarese wars,the comming up,the bootleg years,WWII,cuban casinos,the drug connection sicily/usa and Lucianos misterious death.

Lucania as "Toodoped" said,or Anthony Casso.

I'd like to see an Outfit movie, maybe starting with the burglary of Accardo's. Or one about Sam Destefano, portrayed by Max Cady as portryed bij Robert de Niro :-).

Something about the Colombo war in the 90s. A movie about Scarfo would also be good, but at least there are many documentaries about the Philadelphia family, while there is almost nothing about the Colombos. Also, I would like to see a movie about the Rochester family: while not very important, the story about the big frame-up, the following war and the following trials would be interesting.
By the way, do you think it could be possible they don't want to do movies about Scarfo, the Colombos or Casso and Amuso because they are still alive and could sue them for inconsistencies in the movies? A movie about "the iceman" Kuklinski is being made, but only after he died, for example.

I would like to see one about the boston prov mafia how it merged the killing of wallace in 31 buccola merging prov and boston the dispute of the real power in the 30s40s50s lombardo or buccola, gennaro running the nubers and bets after lombardo shut it down because the comitee on crimes in 51, patraica take over and reign, the boston war (mostly irish) in 60s that effected the mob big time the hoe barboza frame patraica death his sons reign whitey n steve effects the war in 90,s that claimed like 20 lives in like 8 years and the indictmens from 2001 and so forth will be idk I guess in reading prints....now thats a family movie

That would be great but it'd have to be a trilogy at least lol.

I like Ray but i don't really see him as Roy but who knows hopefully it'll be good. Also what part will Roy play in the movie i read somewhere Kuklinski only met him once to buy a gun off him.

I'd like to see an epic Youngstown mob movie made, but there's probably little interest in this except locally.

I suppose half of such a film would consist of footage of cars exploding.

1. Lucky Luciano
2. Roy DeMeo
3. Hoffa/Bufalino or Giancana/Marcello/Trafficante and the Kennedys

yes thats a good idea,the kennedys,giancana,trafficante saga would be great

DeMeo crew

I think ethier the Demeo Crew, Casso, Joe Massino.... all would make for great movies in my opinion.

Hey joerusso just to let you know the movie that you would like to see is my great grandfather.

Who he mentioned alot of people ?

Camarel, sorry but i rather not say, because my great grandfather is know longer with us.

I give up. You guys are crazy. Not just Carmela crazy, but certifiable rubber room crazy.
If you didn't want to say anything, then why say anything?

There's a difference??

I like to think so.

Fair enough .

I heard they are making a movie about The Animal Barbosa and Benecio del Toro is playing him, also heard that Whitey Bulger contacted Mark Wahlberg about playing him in a movie based on Bulger's life....

I heard the Whitey Bulger thing as well... i'd love to see benicio in that role! that would be good!

The character Frank Costello played Jack Nicholson in the Departed was supposedly based on Whitey

There is a movie currently in production called Youngstown Boys and it is centered around the Dinsio brothers and their bank heist in California. Google it and check out the info.

Murder Machine would, quite literally be a killer movie!

I think a film about Ray Flynn blowing his way to leadership of the Local 42 Union in St.Louis would also be a great story.

Mad Dog Joe Sullivan the Irish hitman caught between the wr for the building contracts of Manhattan's West Side would make a blockbuster smash too.

Hopefully a De Meo film would touch on this but the whole saga would be interesting given Spillane's spirited stand and the levels of paranoia in the hood at the time. Mad Dog Joe Sullivan confiding in Featherstone, Coonan thinking of taking out Fat Tony Salerno and his right hand man John Sullivan ochestating all the maneuvers for control of the West Side contracts.

We know what happened after but what preceded Jimmy coonan's rise to power was the most interesting time for the West Side rackets. Nobody trusted nobody, bodies were piling up, loan sharks were disappearing and everybody suspected everybody else, not knowing when they were goning to be next in the firing line.

1. Columbo War
2. Luchese's starting with "Tony Ducks" last few years and the decline with Gas/Vic.
3. Carlo Gambino
4. Carmine Galante

colombo war
family secrets
philly with scarfo

When you think about it there's still plenty of stuff to make a good film on.

I'm with you 123... I think there's a wealth of material from actual events, to character studies, to family histories... it's just how you want to scope it.

There could b so many good ones.id love to see soothing on toto riina,Tommy pitera, the mafia cops and gaspipe.the last Colombo war or 1just on scarp.hell he was gonna kill kkk members for the fbi.even something on the a, b, c wars

You know what else would be good a movie on mad dog Sullivan and the greek frankos.I heard a movies being made on frank sheeran that should b really good

Mark Wahlberg bought the rights to adapt "When Corruption Was King" with him playing Cooley, and Gandolfini (rumoured) to be playing M.D'Amico.

Also, Calabrese, Jr just sold the rights to Operation Fam Secrets to Dreamworks (I think?)

Those should both be good, but I won't get my hopes up. Chicago culture is lost on ppl that don't live here